Yesterday I noted that Marc Racicot, chairman of the Republican National Committee, was making an effort to reach out to gay voters, telling the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest gay group, that the GOP has a “commitment to inclusion.” I think Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum (R) missed Racicot’s memo. As you’ve probably heard by […]
I’m a huge fan on Comedy Central’s “Daily Show with Jon Stewart.” As political satire goes, it doesn’t get any funnier than this show. Stewart does little to hide the fact that he’s a liberal, but the show isn’t about leftist propaganda, it’s a daily parody of the news and the media that reports it. […]
There are about a half-dozen serious Democratic candidates considering a run for California’s governorship in 2006, and in left-leaning state like California, each has a pretty good chance at becoming governor. One of the early favorites is California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, who’s developed a strong reputation on criminal justice issues in the state. And […]
In case you missed it, George Stephanopoulos, the host of ABC’s This Week, had a brief media roundtable discussion featuring some entertaining debate between conservative pundit George Will, Newsweek’s international editor Fareed Zakaria, and New York Times columnist and Princeton economist Paul Krugman. It was a treat to see Krugman on television, which is not […]
Marc Racicot, chairman of the Republican National Committee, is no fool. He sees his job, accurately, as one of generating funds for party campaigns and operations, and reaching out to build relationships with different constituencies to build support for his GOP. His counterpart at the DNC, Terry McAuliffe, does the same thing. With this in […]
Before and during the war in Iraq, much was made of the significant divisions within the Bush administration over foreign policy. As I’ve mentioned before, there’s a multilateral camp, led by Secretary of State Colin Powell, who urged the president to work with coalition allies, generate debate in the United Nations, work with U.N. weapons […]
You might think Attorney General John Ashcroft’s obvious hostility for civil liberties might make him ineligible for an award dealing with free speech. But you’d be mistaken. The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression has selected Ashcroft, among 10 others, as one of the top public officials for stifling free speech. According […]
I know this flap is just the result of a silly clerical error, but I found it amusing and thought I’d share. As Al Kamen wrote in today’s Washington Post, a high-school student near Pittsburgh was writing a paper for an American history class about the Electoral College. He wrote to Florida Gov. Jeb Bush […]
In the months leading up to war, and when the fighting in Iraq began, it seemed any critic who spoke out against the invasion or to question the Bush administration’s intentions was the target of intense scorn. Politicians, actors, musicians, and journalists had their patriotism called into question and their principles attacked as “un-American.” With […]
Just days before the war in Iraq began, one of Carpetbagger’s favorite writers, Robert Wright, made a list of concerns about the ensuing invasion, describing some as “valid” and others “dubious.” Wright, who I would call a war skeptic, dismissed a number of the left’s major fears — that the war would be long, that […]